Poll

POS is Cautious to Ministerial Announcement on Retail to Resi

Date: 11/3/2014

In response to the recent written ministerial annoucement on local planning, and in particular to intended changes to allow retail premises to convert to residential use, the Society's Nicky Linihan told Planning magazine "we hope that the matters we raised through the original consultation, including that the proposals have incorporated a pre-condition that a retail unit should have been vacant for a minimum period before the change of use to residential could come into effect, have been taken on board. We will have to wait for the detail to see whether this and other concerns have been addressed."